One thing, perhaps only of interest to me, is that orotones had the photographic image printed from a negative onto the glass, which is unlike daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes. Those last three are essentially negatives (the images made to look positive by a backing). This should explain how everything, including any text, will appear normal on the orotone-- where everything is reverse in the other photos.
Last edited by drcy; 05-26-2016 at 12:38 AM.
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